12) Don’t Shoot During Blue and Golden Hours Only

Fujifilm X100F · 33.0mm · ƒ/2.0 · 1/90s · ISO 3200

​While it’s important to choose a particular time for landscape photography (for example, shooting before 11am or after 5pm), shooting during the golden andblue hour​only doesn’t really work for street photography.

You see snow, fog, rain or blizzard?

It’s time to go out and start shooting!

13) Photograph Non-Touristy Parts of A City

​When it comes to street photography, you can capture sincere emotions and the true life of the city anywhere you are.

Don’t just go to touristy places.

Look around you and you’ll see excellent scenes that are worth photographing.

14) Have a Spare Battery Handy

​Last thing you want is to have your battery die on you just when you wanted to take that awesome image.

Usually I recommend keeping a spare battery handy, especially if we’re talking about compact cameras/point-and-shooters.

15) Buy Cameras With The Wi-Fi Feature

This way you will not only save time but also convey emotion and feeling in photographs​ at its peak!

Taking Better Street Photographs

There is one last thing I wanted to say:

You won’t get photography masterpieces every time you go out as there are alot of factors​ involved, among it being luck, having the right mood, as well as a number of external circumstances of the city life.

Just enjoy your shooting process.

Understand that your main purpose is to learn how to feel the world around you and capture the moments.

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6 Comments

Felix

I was always in love with street photography. The beauty of spontaneous situations and the looks of people, not knowing they are going to get photographed is priceless. You provide very useful tips here, I especially like that one with the reflective surfaces. I recently wanted to do some selfie street photography for my band instagram account. Unfortunately, that didn’t work out quite well. Do you have any tips for me, how to approach this?

Not sure if you used your smartphone or a DSLR/mirrorless camera but if it’s the former, personally I find it extremely hard using the shutter button on screen to take a selfie (it gets all blurry if I try to). Using the volume buttons to take a pic definitely works.

You said “selfie street photography” so this means you wanted to capture people/background too. In this case, selfie sticks will help (I had a feeling you don’t have one atm).

Alternatively, you can get a camera that has a flip-up screen (wildly popular among vloggers and lovers of self-portrait photos).

Hi, Zarina. Taking pictures is something everyone will do in their lives to one extent or another. In my case I realized that I am becoming interested in street photography more and more, and these tips are great. Definitely a lot to learn.

What bothers me is that since there are a lot of people who can’t a priori give a model release, then such street photos are suitable for editorial only?

Mostly yes, but there are ways to do it without releases. For example, photographing in such a way that you don’t capture people’s faces (instead it’s their back, profiles etc.) or you can darken/brighten photographs (as you can see in a photo of a couple kissing).

Now, as far as I know some stock sites are not so demanding on releases, so you can first try the standard upload… If it doesn’t work then, then yes, you’ll have to mark them “Editorial Use Only“. (Don’t take my word for it though, check other resources to be sure).

It’s interesting that so many people take photos from the touristy parts of a city with the same angel while there are a lot of other beautiful places. I think being creative with angels and choosing different parts of the city is important to take pictures that really stand out. Long exposure also creates amazing photos.

You know my fear of shooting on the street disappeared when I realized that for the most part people don’t pay attention to me (at least not as much as I thought they would).

By the way, I really liked your last photo. It is very beautiful and emotional.